<quoted text>In your "religion" calling posters gay is a rational position, right ? See, your own party is the actual problem and you turn a blind, senile eye....

It just dawned on me that saying a joke was funny,gave you the opinion this was a sexual innuendo.??? How dumb are you?Pretty much so?My age probably indicates a difference in mentality from times when name calling was not done.It still is not acceptable in the society where we live.Just the smart Alec,dumb ones do it.I have said ,long ago,and it still stands,that immediate contact with the sexual deviate is not something desired by some that are older and straight.Make the most of this if you are still so silly.

The Democrats had THEIR ex-presidents at the convention. Your party invited neither of the Bushs or Cheney......GUESS WHY ???They destroyed our economy.

Two things the Bush Aministration did to destroy the economy.Bush ,while in office,pleaded with the Congress beginning in 2001 theu 2007 to regulate Fannie and Freddie.Congress two Democrats,chair of that parties money and banking ,said nothing was wrong.Congress was Democratic.They did nothing.Both Barney Frank and Chris Dodd received the most in funds for their PAC`s from these two.(I have said before that money corrupts)This caused the housing bubble to blow up.Bush went into the Irac war.Bush ended up with leaving the debt at nine Trillion.

Consider that to Obama in just 4 years ending the first 4th year term to run for re election and having a 16 trillion debt.That alone is destroying our economy.Many reasons are also parts and parcel doing the job.It is Obama`s now,not Bush`s.

A "guy" who cannot write a decent post, calling anyone dumb ?? Poor, senile, fool... You have no class or character, your family recognizes it and avoids you. Good luck, your life is a waste.

what do you mean 'guy?' you are posting from Seattle, which mathematically the odds are you are a male but act and dress like a female, and being on the left coast, you are dumb so why get mad about it,

"We can put light where there's darkness, and hope where there's despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation to encourage folks to own their own home."

- President George W. Bush, Oct. 15, 2002

The global financial system was teetering on the edge of collapse when Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one participant, "scared the hell out of everybody."

It was Sept. 18. Lehman Brothers had just gone belly-up, overwhelmed by toxic mortgages. Bank of America had swallowed Merrill Lynch in a hastily arranged sale. Two days earlier, Bush had agreed to pump $85 billion into the failing insurance giant American International Group.

The president listened as Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets, gripped by panic, had frozen overnight, and banks were refusing to lend money.

Then his Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson Jr., told him that to stave off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in history. Bush, according to several people in the room, paused for a single, stunned moment to take it all in.

"How," he wondered aloud, "did we get here?"

Eight years after arriving in Washington vowing to spread the dream of home ownership, Bush is leaving office, as he himself said recently, "faced with the prospect of a global meltdown" with roots in the housing sector he so ardently championed.

There are plenty of culprits, like lenders who peddled easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could not afford and Wall Street chieftains who loaded up on mortgage-backed securities without regard to the risk.

But the story of how the United States got here is partly one of Bush's own making, according to a review of his tenure that included interviews with dozens of current and former administration officials.

From his earliest days in office, Bush paired his belief that Americans do best when they own their own homes with his conviction that markets do best when left alone. Bush pushed hard to expand home ownership, especially among minority groups, an initiative that dovetailed with both his ambition to expand Republican appeal and the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.

Bush did foresee the danger posed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance giants. The president spent years pushing a recalcitrant Congress to toughen regulation of the companies, but was unwilling to compromise when his former Treasury secretary wanted to cut a deal. And the regulator Bush chose to oversee them - an old school buddy - pronounced the companies sound even as they headed toward insolvency.

when does obozo become president other than taking credit when anything happens that seems to be good, whether you like it or not he is responsible for whats going on now, and he had a democrat senate and house his first two years, why didnt they fix the mess bush created to hear them tell it, i can tell you why they were busy trying to take over healthcare, which now everybody is starting to see is clusterscrew

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